Example sentences of "to which [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khrushchev declared , ‘ Fidel is a son to me ’ , to which Rodriguez replied , ‘ That is the mistake . |
| 2 | To many within its borders the rambling diocese of Salisbury — inspiration for Trollope 's Barsetshire — is the rural heartland of timeless Anglicanism , a place to which bishops retire . |
| 3 | Lijphart 's ( 1968b ) typology of democratic systems classified liberal democratic systems along two dimensions — the extent of their social heterogeneity , ranging at one end of the continuum from homogeneous to fragmented at the other ; and the extent to which elite behaviour is collaborative or competitive . |
| 4 | The authors conclude that anti-smoking campaigns should consider increasing the emphasis on the extent to which smoking is an unattractive habit as attractiveness appears to be an area in which women smokers are already vulnerable . |
| 5 | The E flat , which uses clarinets instead of oboes , one flute , and pairs of bassoons , horns , trumpets and drums , is a spacious and serene work of grace and charm ; the G minor , which restricts its wind to one flute and pairs of oboes , bassoons and horns ( to which Mozart later added clarinets ) , has a driving , almost tragic urgency , relaxing only in the exquisite slow movement ; while the majestic ‘ Jupiter ’ , the summit of Mozart 's symphonic achievement , has an expansive grandeur crowned by a magnificent contrapuntal finale . |
| 6 | The extent to which instructions and warnings can limit liability will be discussed below ( see p60 ) . |
| 7 | For the social services department ( SSD ) deficiencies in the level , range , and quality of services in the community were perceived to be the crucial problem to which CMHTs potentially afforded a solution . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , there are limits to the extent to which tribunals can lean in your favour in such a case . |
| 9 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 10 | A striking feature of women 's economic activity ( highlighted in the chapters by Susan Lonsdale and Heather Joshi in this volume ) is the extent to which mothers and some childless women work part-time . |
| 11 | The measurement of such a tiny strain is a challenge to which experimentalists have vigorously responded . |
| 12 | One psychological distinction which has often been used to contrast different tasks in driving is the degree to which tasks can be performed automatically . |
| 13 | One proposal , put forward and agreed by participants at the national workshop , was the establishment of a ‘ best practice ’ programme to which agencies could apply for funds to redesign work . |
| 14 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |
| 15 | The appearance of History and Class Consciousness at the height of the Modernist movement suggests the degree to which history was being totalized by Lukács at the very moment when the process of detotalization had already begun — even in the aporetic possibilities of his own writings . |
| 16 | Thus the argument that ‘ history ’ is what ‘ poststructuralism ’ lacks , itself repeats totalization 's own structure of supplementarity according to which history functions both as an excess and a lack in the origin . |
| 17 | The extent to which land has and is being used as a long-term security by pension funds and by finance houses , and the entry of foreign buyers into the land ; market , are dealt with anecdotally . |
| 18 | Reclaimed wasteland should blend into the landscape and should be capable of supporting the uses to which land is put in the surrounding area , When John Elkington described the reclamation plans in 1978 ( New Scientist , vol 77 , p 13 ) , work was in a fairly early stage . |
| 19 | The Town and Country Planning Acts 1947 and 1971 place official control over the use to which land and property are put . |
| 20 | I presume a committee here will decide and sit as to which land shall have dag , drag hunting and the er the land the tenant will have no rights in that at all and if you 're thinking you can control horses that are taking part in a drag hunt any more than you can control horses taking part in a fox hunt , you 've got to have another think . |
| 21 | This can be done only if gas exchange takes place in an internal lung , to which air flow can be controlled . |
| 22 | Fine dust that passes through normal filters and collects in ductwork , if not removed , will contaminate rooms to which air is circulated , just as slime and algae in pipes and tanks will contaminate plumbing and produce bacteria-laden aerosols from taps , showers and WCs . |
| 23 | The commission will not be responsible for promoting a network : the extent to which companies form a network , particularly one that as at present subsidises the smaller contractors , is a matter for them . |
| 24 | This factor determines the answer to our next question , that of the frequency and extent to which companies use search firms . |
| 25 | The project concerns the extent to which companies have taken advantage of these possibilities . |
| 26 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 27 | Such histories tend to ignore the extraordinary extent and longevity of certain earlier trade patterns to which Europe itself was merely peripheral . |
| 28 | Another factor affecting the impact of political pressure is the degree to which groups are prepared to make their protest felt . |
| 29 | Afterwards there was a party at a Mayfair house , to which Joyce ensured that the visitor was invited . |
| 30 | A principle is enunciated which is intended and designed to regulate a certain real situation X. Another principle regulates another real situation , Y. When a novel situation Z arises for which no principle has apparently been specifically designed , the law is determined by examining the extent to which Z is closer to X or to Y. If it is more analogous to X , then the legal principle regulating X will ordinarily be invoked . |